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...outrage that the police raid provoked among residents had a familiar ring. During the search of a black household in London's Brixton area last month, an officer shot a woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. That shooting touched off a night of riots...
John Ford's Hints on Household Taste: The Influence of Genre Painting on Fort Apache: William Howze, Museum of Fine Arts...
...contends that there may be at least 10,000 hazardous-waste sites in the U.S. that pose a serious threat to public health and that should be given priority in any national cleanup. The cost, OTA estimates, could easily reach $100 billion, or more than $1,000 per U.S. household. Eventually, predicts the General Acccounting Office, which also does studies for Congress, more than 378,000 waste sites may require corrective action. So far the EPA has put only 850 dumps on its priority list (see map). In its five-year effort, it managed to clean up only six sites...
What's in a name? If the name has a familiar ring to it, like Jell-O and Oreo or NyQuil and Clearasil, it can be worth millions of dollars. Companies that sell household products with well-known brand names have become the hottest targets in the latest round of merger wars. Last week two big packaged-goods firms--Richardson-Vicks and Revlon--escaped hostile takeovers, but only by rushing into the arms of other suitors...
...Richardson-Vicks, based in Wilton, Conn., the trouble began last month, when its stockholders received a $54-a-share offer from Unilever, the British- Dutch household-products giant. Prior to the bid, Richardson-Vicks had been trading for about $40 a share. Nonetheless, its executives spurned the offer, thinking they could get even more for the company and fearing Unilever's reputation for trimming the management ranks of firms it acquires. Unilever upped its bid to $60 a share, but Richardson-Vicks still put out a plea for a "white knight" to make a friendly merger bid. Procter & Gamble...